Palm oil exceling trace?

[Cal43]

Does the using palm in a recipe excel trace or is the thicken of the soap mixture caused by lowered oil or lye water temperature. Since using palm I realized the mixture is thicken fast.


Recipe
8oz palm
8oz coconut
8oz olive oil
1 oz castor

 

[shunt2011]

I do find that palm moves faster than lard by quite a bit.

 

[IrishLass]

It's the temp at which you soap. Palm oil needs a warmer soaping temp if you don't want to end up with pseudo-trace. With pseudo-trace, it's not that your soap is actually tracing, it's thickening up because the hard fats such as palm or butters in your formula are coming out of melted suspension because the soaping temp is too cool to keep them in a melted state long enough before the heat from lye reaction can kick in and take over. I soap my formulas with fats such as PKO and butters no lower than 110F to avoid pseudo-trace and the accompanying stearic spots that will show up in my finished soap when soaped cooler than that.


IrishLass

 

[Cal43]

Great!! Thank you. Does it matters if the lye water is lower by or higher by the 10 dregrees. I always wondered if the oils should be higher or the lye water.